Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nerves Congress is losing its stomach for war in the Gulf. Enigmatic comments from top brass aren't helping...
...have to be a conspiracy buff to have trouble with how the Whitewater investigation ended up focused on the President's pants. Or to feel that, whatever turns out to be true about Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Starr's own methods are not always easy to stomach. Going after the President's sex life, wiring Linda Tripp to secretly tape Lewinsky, trying to persuade Lewinsky to tape Clinton--are those the actions of a conscientious prosecutor or a political...
...media have in shaping the perception of events, a misgiving that was reinforced by your theme, "Pictures from a Year the News Turned Emotional." That fear is, unfortunately, justified when good judgment is not exercised. The close-up photograph of Evander Holyfield's ear not only turned my stomach (again) but also made me ashamed of our culture. Perhaps you should try harder to ensure that the method you use to invoke emotion in your readers is not sensationalistic. SARA PILAR BRYANT Melrose, Mass...
Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...
...requires a tough stomach to talk to Adams at a time when rumors of renewed IRA activity in Northern Ireland are rife. The London Daily Telegraph on Wednesday quoted "unidentified senior security sources" as saying the terrorist organization had resumed training, recruitment and weapons testing. Is Blair worried? Perhaps, but he says it's worth "taking a few risks" for peace. The Labor Prime Minister said he would tell Adams: "If you return to violence there will be no place for you at the negotiation table." No word on whether the Sinn Fein leader was asked to walk through...